Example sentences of "took [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guards and police took me completely outside the town and put me into some weird hotel that looked like a Holiday Inn , but it was in the middle of the woods . |
| 2 | The boys ' father Ben said : ‘ The lads took me straight to the baby and it was freezing . |
| 3 | He took me straight to the Rembrandt and talked about it , without lowering his voice , and I had the smallness to be embarrassed because some other people there stared at us . |
| 4 | The man took me straight to the Tabard . |
| 5 | And me , he took me round to the YMCA locker room and photographed me half dressed . |
| 6 | An eery echoing spiralling climb of 168 steps took me up to the light itself and 180 degree views stretching to hazy nothingness to the west and north ; Harris hills to the south-west ; the Cuillins of Skye to the south and the mainland mountains to the east . |
| 7 | ‘ Your grandad took me up to the hospital , ’ he ground out . |
| 8 | My friend Roy Masters , former St George and Wests coach and a fine writer on politics and the game ( which in Australia often blend into each other ) , took me up to the table and said , ‘ Chicka , you know Tom , do n't you ? ’ |
| 9 | No he used to , I know who , Dawn , he used to take me sometimes and a couple of times he took me up to the and he used to say to me and what would you take for starters so I always said well I always like erm prawn cocktail |
| 10 | Then the old lady took me firmly by the arm and led me into the bathroom . |
| 11 | Benjamin took me firmly by the wrist and my horse whickered softly . |
| 12 | It took me right to the McDarroch days as he fished out one forceps after another , opened and shut them a few times then tried them on me . |
| 13 | We stood eyeing each other for a few minutes and then to my amazement a jeep came up ; the farmer saw my problem and not only gave me a lift past the bull but took me right to the main road where the bike was . |
| 14 | you know when they were two days old , Trevor took me through to the hospital |
| 15 | ‘ That night , they took me out into the desert and beat me . |
| 16 | When Ted took me out into the sea , we had fifty fish |
| 17 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 18 | My decision early on to build site-specific works in steel took me out of the traditional studio . |
| 19 | They took me out , took me out of the bed and just dropped me ! |
| 20 | They took me out with the wounded . |
| 21 | A sloop took me out to the ship which dipped and rose wildly in the harbour . |
| 22 | Miss Tunstall took me quietly to the hedge : |
| 23 | They took me there in the car . |
| 24 | The last leg took me down through the fringes of the Forest of Dean along a narrowing spur . |
| 25 | A maid was immediately summoned who took me down to the servants ’ quarters . |
| 26 | On Monday , the first day of the fair , Mum took me down to The Market Place after school and , armed with my fare , I got on to the children 's roundabout . |
| 27 | He put me on a stretcher , had me carried about half a mile across fields to an ambulance , which in turn took me down to the local advanced dressing station . |
| 28 | They took me down to the labour room . |
| 29 | They took me down to the labour ward and offered me a sedative to help me sleep . |
| 30 | That 's why , the morning the porter took me down to the forest , you sent Dame Catherine after me to see where we were going . |